Sayeed Muhammad: Hours into of a cabinet shuffle in Jammu and Kashmir, new Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta debuted in an unprecedented manner on the Kathua eight-year-old’s rape and murder as he termed it a minor incident. “Rasana is a chhoti si baat (minor)… We have to think this should never happen again and the…
Sabah Mannan After the terrorist attack on al-Rawdah mosque targeting Sufis in the town of Bir al-Abed claimed at least 305 lives for which no group has yet claimed responsibility, Egypt’s military launched air strikes targeting “terrorist” locations and vehicles.Egyptian security sources reported that the military will not rest until all those involved in Friday’s…
NY Times Pakistan’s army chief has approved death sentences for 15 people convicted by military courts of involvement in attacks that killed 32 security forces and two civilians. A military statement issued Sunday says Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa also approved prison terms for 20 alleged militants. It says they were involved in attacks on security…
Daoud Kuttab/Qantara Following the death of the Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, there are fears that the masterminds of the murder could go unpunished. A development that sends a fatal signal to journalism worldwide For two months, the brutal murder of the U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabiaʹs consulate in Istanbul, and…
DOT Desk: The government will establish a cancer hospital and a kidney hospital in each divisional city as the number of cancer and kidney patients are on the rise in the country, new Health Minister Zahid Malik has said, reports The Daily Sun. “A kidney unit comprising 10 beds will be set up in every…
Afrida Ahmed Yesterday, at least eight people were killed and almost 12 people were injured after a truck was driven into a cycle way in lower Manhattan, New York City. According to sources, the suspect was identified as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. He was a 29 year old man who came from Uzbekistan but lived in…
Barbara Corcoran is the co-founder of Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners. She talks about the tricky business of hiring a good candidate. ‘Resume, Not Needed’: Barbara thinks that she is good at hiring because of the mistakes she has made. She has understood the importance of paying attention to the specific individual and to search out…
Sofian Khan: With dem-and of immediate release of BNP chief Khaleda Zia, a sudden procession was carried out by the party leaders and activists, led by its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. The procession was brought out in Kalyanpur of the capital during the wee hours yesterday. According to BNP Central Executive Committee member…
Science Alert Hymenasplenium is one of two genera in the almost comprehensively distributed and species-rich greenery family Aspleniaceae. Analysts have recently perceived Hymenasplenium laterepens, a triploid taxon from China, but did not designate a type specimen. Scientists from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected and studied the triploid taxon at the classical place in Xishuangbanna….
The Science Alert: Touching a star isn’t easy. The sun is an enormous, searing-hot orb of plasma that generates a chaos of magnetic fields and can unleash deadly blasts of particles at a moment’s notice. But that is precisely what NASA plans to do – 24 times or more – with its car-size Parker Solar…